Time & Money Saving. By scheduling email chains instead of individual messaging, merchants save their time. Besides this, email marketing is more cost-effective compared to other forms of advertising.

Better Visibility. Since people tend to regularly check their mailboxes, there is a high chance that they will be timely informed about brand’s new offers and engaged with the promotional content.

Undoubtedly, every store owner expects that all the above benefits will be followed by traffic and sales increases, which is quite right.

Email Marketing Future Perspectives

Email marketing trends often change, so merchants should stay abreast of the latest tendencies to make the most of their email campaigns.

In one of our previous articles, we already talked about such a promising email marketing trend as personalization. Now, we will explore some other equally important tendencies that will significantly influence the development of advertising emails in 2018.

Email Automation by Audience Segments

The stats recently presented by the Direct Marketing Association show that targeted emails can increase total email returns on investments up to 77%. Such an impressive figure proves that customers willingly opt for the brands that offer them relevant content in their promotional emails.

Finally, by adjusting their emails to different customer groups, merchants can cover a larger audience base with their offers, which plays an important role in increasing sales.

Textual Emails

The research presented by the AWeber Email Marketing company earlier this year proves that in 2018, e-commerce businesses will continue sending both text-only emails along with the image-based ones.

In fact, there are two main reasons why emails without images are popular among web marketers. First of all, they do not really look like artless advertising as it happens with image-based emails. Textual emails, even if they promote something, are not immediately perceived as advertisements. Users are more likely to read such messages and then decide whether to accept the provided offers or not.

Another advantage of textual emails is their time- and even cost-effectiveness. More specifically, online merchants do not have to compose email templates or buy appropriate images to be inserted in emails. Instead, they should write only the advertising message itself.

Let’s move on further and explore one more trend related to text styles of promotional emails.

Storytelling Emails

The same AWeber company states that in 2018, storytelling will become anessential part of email marketing. After all, customers better like good stories rather than being immediately asked to buy something.

For example, not so long ago, the Blue Apron Meals company presented its brief story starting from its first meals and unique ingredients and ending with some particular data. The personal tone of the letter and friendly treatments made each recipient of the email campaign feel an integral part of the company’s story.

Although the above bits of advice can’t be called innovative, they will likely shape the future of email marketing in 2018.

If you run a Magento 2 based store, you can keep up with all of them by using a powerful solution by Aheadworks. Now, let’s find out more about this solution.

Follow Up Email by Aheadworks

Thanks to the Follow Up Email extension for Magento 2, merchants can schedule automatic email campaigns segmented by particular customer groups. The format of each email, including its layout and content, can be precisely set through the convenient editor.

With the A/B testing and preview modes, you can avoid any accidental mistakes and constantly improve the efficiency of your messages. Finally, the statistics of each email and email campaign in general can be tracked through open rates, click rates, and so on.

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